Arts Back to the the ’90s: capturing the north’s long-lost gay scene Alex Klineberg gets up, close and personal with Stuart Linden Rhodes, accidental chronicler of northern England’s gay nightlife in the 1990s By Alex Klineberg • 4 min read
Arts PROUD A.F exhibition with Hannah Shillito, Ex-Girlfriend and Sticky Pinz to raise funds for Survivors’ Network Local artist Hannah Shillito has collaborated with local drag queen Ex-Girlfriend and West End costume designer Sticky Pinz for a Kemptown gallery private view and solo show to raise awareness and funds for Survivors’ Network By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Features & Longread OMing and Ahhing with Brighton Buddhist Centre Jaq Bayles talks to Amalabandhu, who runs the Brighton Buddhist Centre’s Gender & Sexual Diversity Group By Jaq Bayles • 4 min read
Community News Peter Tatchell is 70 and celebrates 55 years of human rights campaigning Over the last five decades, Peter has participated in 3,000 peaceful protests, been arrested 100 times and suffered 300 violent assaults by homophobes and far right extremists, including 50 attacks on his flat. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts StoneCrabs Theatre celebrates LGBT History Month with a new book and exhibition about the Isle of Wight’s hidden LGBTQ+ history The book features excerpts from 18 interviews with LGBTQ+ people, carried out over two years, who share honest, intimate accounts of what it’s like to be ‘out’ on the Isle of Wight, an isolated island with a long and abiding conservative history By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Community News Santa Bus raises more than £26k for Brighton & Hove charities, including LGBT Switchboard More than 50 local businesses were part of the fundraising effort, most of them volunteering as Santa Bus collection points, while others donated their services, such as printing and distributing leaflets. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Community News New research shows 81% of young gay and lesbian people would feel more confident if their relationships were represented in mainstream media Youth charity The Mix has released data from a new YouGov survey of 2,000 16-25-year olds across the UK, which shows the variety of relationship types that young people are having, and the wide range of sexual identities, yet also shows that a third of young people disagree that the media represents By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Community News New GPAHE reports reveal conversion therapy disinformation thriving online Two reports from the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism have exposed how tech companies have failed to deplatform anti-LGBTQ+ conversion therapy disinformation and ban providers pushing the discredited practice, even though many claim to do so By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts AT HOME WITH HOOTMAN: From ‘Don’t Look Up’ to ‘Toast of Tinseltown’ What’s hot on the box? Michael Hootman tunes into the best and worst TV and film By Michael Hootman • 4 min read
Arts Brighton & Hove’s Artists Open Houses festival to celebrate 40th Anniversary in May The festival is now the largest event of its kind in the UK with around 200 houses and studio spaces across the city opening their doors for the main festival in May and around 60 opening during the Christmas festival. Over 2,000 artists and makers share their work and homes each year By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Features & Longread Know your lubes and your condoms The word tribology – based on the Greek word ‘tribos’, meaning rubbing, and the suffix ‘logy’ meaning ‘study of’ – was coined by Peter Jost in 1966, in a report highlighting the cost of friction, wear and corrosion to the UK economy. By Contributor • 3 min read
Arts UK’s Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival announces new documentary film finance fund A total fund of £60,000 will support three documentary films with an annual request for ideas from filmmakers each January By Graham Robson • 1 min read
